Harry goldstein



(No Model.)

H. GOLDSTEIN.

GAP.

No. 542,636. Patented Ju1y 16, 1895.

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PATENT I-IARRY GOLDSTEIN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,636, dated July 16, 1895.

Application filed April 27. 1895. Serial No. 547,424 (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY GOLDSTEIN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Caps and other Head- Gear, of which the following is a specification, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a visored cap embodying my invention, the visor being partly broken away for greater clearness. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the cap looking toward the front thereof and showing the transparent eye-guards turned up. Fig. 2 shows the eyeguards before being attached to the body.

The object of my invention is to guard the eyes from wind and dust; and my invention consists in the combination of a head-gear with a pair of independently movable-that is, having a play along their opposed edges, and transparent eye-guards flexibly hinged to the front of the body, and adapted to be moved down over the eyes of the wearer and up from over the eyesfor example, within the body of the cap-when not in use.

In the drawings, a is a head-gear, provided in this instance with a visor a. To guard the wearers eyes from wind and dust, I provide the headgear with a pair of independently-movabie eye-guards b b of any suitable transparent material-such as celluloid, for example-these guards being hinged at the front of the cap in such wise as to be moved down over the eyes when wanted, and up from over the wearers eyesfor example, within the cap-bodywhen not wanted. The eye-guards b b are preferably mounted on and held by a hinge, forming strip 5 which is secured to the body of the head-gear, in order that the rather stiff material of which the guards b bare ordinarily formed maybe manipulated Without danger of cracking it; and it is to avoid danger of cracking the material when the eye-guards are manipulated, that I make the eye-guards b b of a pair of independently-movable pieces of transparent material, having found, in practice, that a one-piece transparent eye-guard readily and generally fractures when manipulated. I accordingly make the contiguous eye-guards b 1) free along their opposed edges 5 b which are opposed in line with the nose between the eyes, and are divergent at the inner lower portions to provide a nose-space. The desirability of this construction arises from the fact that the upper margin of a hinged eyeguard is curved when down, and if the guard be then turned up over the fiat under edge of are best cut away at b, so as to form a V- shaped recess of sufficient area to accommodate the bridge of the nose when the eyeguards are down. When the guards are down, the Wearers eyes are protected without interfering with his sight, as the guards are of transparent material, which will be usually of a bluish, greenish, or brownish color. The eye-guards are readily moved up from over the eyes and out of the way. If desired, the opposed edges 1) may be connected at If.

The hinge-strip b may hold the independent eye-sections together at b and they may be caught together, if desired, (I prefer to do S0,) at b"; but this does not prevent the eyeguards b 1) being independently movablethat is, having play one in respect of the other-to prevent fracture.

What I claim is- 1. A head gear comprising a body and a pair of contiguous eye guards of transparent material, fleigibly hinged at theirinner edges directly to the front of the body andadapted to be folded inside of, or to be projected from the body to shield the eyes of the wearer, substantially as described.

2. A head gear comprising a body and a April, A. D. 1895.

HARRY GOLDSTEIN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD S. BEACH, ALSMOND N. ALVRAD. 

